Re: [whatwg] Some video questions

2008-01-30 Thread J. King
On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 20:57:35 -0500, Charles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's a precise scenario: A user creates an HTML5 page, and of course uses the video element to embed their Windows Media content. They're rude, and could care less about Mac or Linux support. Will Safari provide an

Re: [whatwg] Referer header sent with a ping?

2008-01-30 Thread Ian Hickson
On Wed, 23 Jan 2008, Darin Fisher wrote: HTTP auth headers may be required to access the internet (e.g., to pass a request through a proxy server), so this should only apply to the Authorization request header, right? On Thu, 24 Jan 2008, Kornel Lesinski wrote: I don't think that attack

Re: [whatwg] Some video questions

2008-01-30 Thread Charles
Thanks for the conversation, folks! I was hoping that video would make Objecty http://wiltgen.net/objecty/ redundant by making it easy for authors to embed video in a very simple, normalized fashion across formats, browsers and OSs. Now I understand that video will be considered successful

Re: [whatwg] Some video questions

2008-01-30 Thread Oliver Hunt
On 30/01/2008, at 12:54 PM, Charles wrote: Thanks for the conversation, folks! I was hoping that video would make Objecty http://wiltgen.net/ objecty/ redundant by making it easy for authors to embed video in a very simple, normalized fashion across formats, browsers and OSs. Now I

Re: [whatwg] scope attribute on td

2008-01-30 Thread Keryx Web
James Graham skrev: FWIW the HTML 4 behavior which turns a td scope=somthing into a heading from the point of view of the UA is, in principle, useful since there are cases (particularly for row headings) where one cell is effectively both data and a heading but the formatting should be

Re: [whatwg] Some video questions

2008-01-30 Thread Charles
What part of video does it not fix? It fixes the problem for formats supported by the player(s) that a particular browser vendor thinks is important. That's good as far as it goes, don't get me wrong. I understand Apple's POV is that cascading source elements makes the debate moot.

[whatwg] A potential slight security enhancement to postMessage

2008-01-30 Thread Jeff Walden
I briefly wrote up some documentation on postMessage for the Mozilla Developer Center: http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/DOM:window.postMessage If you pull it up, you'll note two places where I include big, huge, overbearing, somewhat-exaggerating injunctions about first checking the

Re: [whatwg] Canvas - non-standard globalCompositeOperation

2008-01-30 Thread Ian Hickson
On Thu, 28 Jun 2007, Philip Taylor wrote: In addition to the standard values for globalCompositeOperation (and ignoring 'darker'), Gecko supports: [...] Webkit supports: [...] [...] As far as I can imagine, for each non-standard value, the possible situations are: * No content relies on

Re: [whatwg] A potential slight security enhancement to postMessage

2008-01-30 Thread Maciej Stachowiak
On Jan 30, 2008, at 6:00 PM, Jeff Walden wrote: I briefly wrote up some documentation on postMessage for the Mozilla Developer Center: http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/DOM:window.postMessage If you pull it up, you'll note two places where I include big, huge, overbearing,

Re: [whatwg] Canvas rectangles

2008-01-30 Thread Ian Hickson
On Sun, 1 Jul 2007, Philip Taylor wrote: The clearRect() method ... The fillRect() method ... The strokeRect() method ... - should say clearRect(x, y, w, h) etc, for consistency with all the other function definitions. Fixed. Shapes are ... subject to ... shadow effects, global alpha,

Re: [whatwg] Some video questions

2008-01-30 Thread Andrew Sidwell
Charles wrote: Unfortunately, content providers usually can't provide the same content in different formats -- either it's too expensive to re-author a similar experience for multiple formats, or functionality they need isn't available in multiple formats, Transcoding video really isn't hard

Re: [whatwg] Canvas patterns, and miscellaneous other things

2008-01-30 Thread Ian Hickson
On Sat, 23 Jun 2007, Philip Taylor wrote: What should happen if you try drawing a 0x0-pixel repeating pattern? (I can't find a way to make a 0x0 image that any browser will load, but the spec says you can make a 0x0 canvas. Firefox and Opera can't make a 0x0 canvas - it acts like it's

Re: [whatwg] A potential slight security enhancement to postMessage

2008-01-30 Thread Collin Jackson
Here is a suggestion for a backwards-compatible addition to the postMessage specification: Currently postMessage is great for sending authenticated messages between frames. The receiver knows exactly where each message came from. However, it doesn't provide any confidentiality guarantees. When

Re: [whatwg] nextSiblingElement ?

2008-01-30 Thread Garrett Smith
On Jan 24, 2008 5:40 PM, Ian Hickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 23 Jan 2008, Garrett Smith wrote: nextSibling and previousSibling are useful, but not always what I want. I usually want to get a siblingElement than a sibling, which might be a text node. One of the following

Re: [whatwg] nextSiblingElement ?

2008-01-30 Thread Ian Hickson
On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, Garrett Smith wrote: One of the following drafts probably already handles your needs: http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-2-Traversal-Range/traversal.html#TreeWalker http://www.w3.org/TR/ElementTraversal/ To create a tree walker, define an accept() and then